Comments on: How to entertain a 3 year old on the longest journey ever

By: olivia kirby

olivia kirby — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:56:49 +0000

We drove from Calais to Les Gets in the French Alps with a 10 year old, 16 month old and 2 and a half year old. It was hard work!!!

By: HELEN

HELEN — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:50:59 +0000

I tend to find that an iphone with earpieces works well…it drowns out the sound of the kids fighting in the back over who’s got the most/least space..

By: Molly

Molly — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:04:47 +0000

Good thinking! Frog has a LeapPad Ultra, so maybe we’ll take that too next time.

By: mirari

mirari — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:38:34 +0000

we bought her a little tv so she can look at her favourite cartoons when we travel for hours.

By: Molly

Molly — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:18:58 +0000

Argh. 28 hours? Sheesh! Worth it when you get there though. I’ve always wanted to go to New Zealand.

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:44:02 +0000

We play ispy with colours, so “I spy with my little eye, something the colour of…” – definitely works before they learn their sounds.

I may also have to take issue with the title of your post – “the longest journey ever”. In less than three weeks I will be taking the twins on a 28 hour flight to New Zealand. Gulp.

By: Molly

Molly — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:34:25 +0000

Your gran sounds like a genius. If only my 3 year old would eat mints!

By: Sally Gurteen

Sally Gurteen — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:39:37 +0000

Tee hee, when we were little we used to play a game where we had to make up sentences from the last three letters of a license plate. Or, when gran was getting really desperate, she’d give us all a mint and start a competition on who could keep it in their mouth the longest- that definitely shut us up concentrating!